The Forrest City times., 1887-11-19
TIE WORLDS DISC0RDS. .
The Rev. Dr. Talmage Discourses
 on Spiritual Music

on Spiritual Music
 Gods wondrous Harmony at tho Beginning
 Changed bv Sin to Harsh Discord-Every-
 thing Out of Tune on This Globe-Terrible
 Sounds for Heaven to Hoar Constantly
 Being Emitted-The Promise of the Time
 When Christ Will Lead the Triumphal Cho-
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 BROOKLYN, x. r., Nov d-Afier the open ing song in which all the thousands partici- pated, and Prof. Browne's organ recital, the Rev T. Dewitt T.image, D. D., expounded chapter in Samuel l., where Saul, possessed Of an evil spirit, threw 6 javelin at David, who was playing on the harp before him The sub feet of the sermon was Concord and Dscord," snd the text was from Job, xxxviiL v. and q: ''who laid the corner stone thereof; when the morning stars sang together" He said;
 We have all seen the ceremony at the laying of the corner stone of church, asylum or Ma sonic Temple Into the hollow of the stone were placed scrolls of history and important documents to be suggestive If, one or two hundted years after, the building should be destroyed by fira or torn down. We remem- Der the silver trowel or iron hammer that smotc the square piece of granite into sane tity. We remember some venerable man who presided, welding the trowsi or hammer. We remember also the music as the choir stood on the scattered stones and timber Of the building about to be constructed. The leave. of the note books futtered in the wind, and were turned over with a great rustllng, knd VIC remember how the bass, baritone, tenor, conirslto and soprano voices com mingled. They had for many days been re- hesrslng the special programme. that 1t might be worthy of the corner stone laying.
 GODS woSDRoUs HARMONY.
 In my text the poet of uz calls us to grander ceremonY--the laying of the founda- ton of this great temple of world. The corner stone was a block of light and the tower was of celestial crystal All about and ea the enbankments of cloud stood the an geiie ehoristers, uEroll!ns their librettos cf overture, and other worlds clapped shining cymbals while the ceremony went on, and God, the architect, by stroke Of light after stroke of light, dedicated this great cathedral of A world. with mountains for pillars, and sky for frescoed ceiling, and towering fields for floor, and sunrise and midnight aurora for upholstcry tWho laid the corner stone tdereof; when the morning stars sang to- getherp
 The fact is that the whole universe was a complete cadence, an unbroken dltbyramb, musical portfolio The great sheet of i'm mensity had been spread out, and written on 1t were the stars, the smaller of them minims, the larger of them sustained notes The meteors marked the staccsto passages, the whole heavens a gamut, with all sounds, in tonations and modulations, the space between 4 a n stellar light quayer, the thunder base clef, the wind among trees a treble clef. That Is the way God made all things, perfect har- mony.
 SIN CREATES DIscoRD.
 But one day a harp string snapped in the great orchestra. One day voice sounded out of tune. One day a discord, harsh and terrific, grated upon the glorious antiphone. 1t was sin that made the dlssonance, and that ssrsb discord has been sounding through the centuries. All the work of Christians, and and reformers of all ages is 10 stop that diseord and get all things back Into the perfect harmony which was heard at the laying of the cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together. Before l get through, If 1 am diyineiy helped, l will make 1t plain that sin is discord and right sousness is harmony.
 That things in general are out of tune Is as plain as to a musiotan's ear Is the unhappy clash of clarionet and basso0u in au orches- tra rendering. The worlds health out of tune; Weak lung and the atmosphere in col iision, disordeted eye and monday light in quarrel, rheumatic limb and damp weather in truggle, neuralgia and pneumonia and con and epilepsies in 1ocks swoop upon neighbofhoods and cities. Where you find Due person with sound throat and keen eye sight and alert ear and easy respiration; and regular pulsation, and supple limb, and prime | igestion, and steady nerves, you Ind hun I.A ttal this, or that, or the other physical function is dlsordered. Tue human intellect out Of tune: The judgment wrongly swerved. or the menloi ~ leaky or the will weak, or the temper in- and the well balanced mind excep- tional Domestic life out of tune: Only here and there s conjugal outbreak of incOmpau- bllty of temper through the divorce courts, or a hlial outbreak about fathers will through the surrogate's court, or case of wilebeating or husband poisoning through the criminal courts, but thousands of families with June outside and January within.
 EVERYTHING OUT or TUNE.
 Society out of tune labor and capital, thcir bands on each others throat. Spirit of caste keeping those down in the social scale in struggle to get up and putting those who are pp flu anxiety lest they have to come down. No wonder the old pianoforte of society Is all out of tune, when hypocrisy and lying and subterfuge and double dealing and syeophancy and charlatanism aud revenge have for 60O years been banging away at the keys and stamping the pedals.
 On all sides there Is perpetual shipwreck of barmonies. Nations In discord. Without realizing it so wrong Is the feeling of nation for nation that the symbols chosen are fierce and destructive. In this country, where our skes are full of robins and doves and morn ing larks, we have for our national symbol the fierce and filthy eagle, as immoral bird as can be found in all the Ornithological csta- n~tF ef.A 1.Vss lambs and fallow deer, their symbol Is the merciless lion. In Russia, where from be- tween her frozen north and blooming south all kindly beasts dwell, they choose the growing bear; and Id tts worlds heraldry q fsvorte figure Is the dragon, which IS winged serpent, ferocious and desthful. And so fond Is the world of contention that we climb out through the heavens and baptize one of the other planets with the spirit of battle, and call it Mars, after the god of war, and we give to the eighth sign of the zodiac the name of the scorpion, creature which ls chiefly ceie hrated for Its deadly Sting. But, after all, these symbols are expressive Of the way na- ,ion feels toward nation. D scord wide as the continent ana bridging the seas.
 NOT MUCH LOVE Lo5f
 suppose you have noticed how warmly ia love dry goods stores are with other dry goods stores, and how highly grocerymen think of tue sugars of the groCerymen On the same
 
 and homeopathic doctors speak of each other, and bow ministers will sometimes put minls- ters on that beautiful cooking instrument which tbe English call a spit sn iron roller with spikes on 1t, and turned by crank before a hot fire, and then If the minister being roasted cries out against 1t, the men who are turning him say: Hush, brother; we are turning thls spit for the glory of God and the good of your soul, and you must be quiet while We close the service with:
 rBesi be the lie that binds
 Our hearts in Christian lofei"
 The earth is dametered and eircumferencsd with dlscoFd and the music that was render ed at the ing of the worlds corner stone, when the morning stars sang together, is not heard now; aud though here and thcfe, from thls and that part of society and from this and that part of the earth, there comes up thrill Ing solo of love or a rarble of worship or sweet duet of patience, they are drowned out by discord that shakes the earth.
 Paul says: "The whole creation groanetb,n and while the nightingale and the woodlark and the canary and the blower sometimes sing SO sweetly that their notes have been written out in musical notation, and it Is found that the cuckoo sings n.the key ot D and that the